Alumni Portrait: Reporter Parker Yesko of investigative podcast “In The Dark”
Parker Yesko (’16) always knew she wanted to be a criminal justice reporter. But she never would have predicted that just two years out of journalism school, her work would help to overturn a murder conviction and set a man free. About a year after graduating from Berkeley Journalism, Yesko landed a job as an…
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J212 Advanced Audio
Radio students may continue to develop their news and production skills in several formats: (1) the reporting and production of the weekly “Inside Oakland” program (broadcast on KALX-FM). Each episode explores a specific theme with focus on the geographic, cultural, and political entity known as Oakland; (2) the collaborative production of a documentary program focusing…
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The goal of this class is to produce captivating, narrative, long-form audio stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of creative audio, including: finding, mapping and planning narrative stories; successfully pitching major radio programs and podcasts; interview skills; editing and script writing for style. This class will leave students with a strong foundation for entering the…
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Queena Kim joins Berkeley Journalism as head of audio program
Veteran radio producer Queena Kim, a 2000 alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, will join the School this fall as head of its audio journalism program. Kim is Senior Editor of the Weekend Desk at public broadcaster KQED, a desk she helped launch in 2019. Previously, she held the post of Senior…
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Audio is quickly becoming the chosen medium of the best purveyors of narrative and investigative journalism. In this class, we will learn how to produce broadcast-ready and captivating stories using advanced narrative techniques. To do that we will learn how to be creative, resourceful and rigorous in pursuing a wide range of stories, of the…
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This class teaches you the basics of audio journalism. Together we will produce a series of half-hour radio shows covering the news, arts and life in the San Francisco Bay Area. We will cover both the technical and editorial craft of producing an audio news story: how to edit and mix audio; plan and report…
Read MoreSaving Part Of California’s History, One Dish At A Time
From 1930 to 1968, TEPCO, the Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company, made dishes — the kind you might find at a diner — at its factory in El Cerrito, California. The dishes might seem pretty ordinary. But they’re actually quite meaningful to a small band of collectors all over the state. Listen to it here.
Read MoreDeath Comes Home
Most of us give our loved ones who’ve passed away over to an entire industry that has sprung up to take care of the tasks we don’t want to deal with: preparing a body for burial, holding services to commemorate life, and the final internment. But there is a growing movement to take death rites…
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